This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The whole world in one water tank.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.